To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious. One must practice the virtues taught in such books in order to acquire love of God.
Restrain the mind until it dissolves in the Consciousness. This is wisdom, this is meditation. The rest is all logic and verbal extensions.
Why are old lovers able to become friends? Two reasons. They never truly loved each other, or they love each other still.
-Whitney Otto
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-Oscar Wilde
Those who read books cannot understand the teachings and, what’s more, may even go astray. But those who try to observe the things going on in the mind, and always take that which is true in their own minds as their standard; never get muddled.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
-Friedrich Nietzsche